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considered by itself, his mere "massa corporea," 

 may fairly be compared with the bodies of 

 other species of his zoological order, and his 

 corporeal affinities thus estimated. 



Let us suppose ourselves to be purely im- 

 material intelligences, acquainted only with 

 a world peopled like our own, except that 

 man had never lived on it, yet into which the 

 dead body of a man had somehow been intro- 

 duced. 



We should, I think, consider such a body to 

 be that of some latisternal ape, but of one 

 much more widely differing from all the 

 others than such others differ one from 

 another amongst themselves. We should be 

 especially struck with its vast brain, and we 

 should be the more impressed by it when we 

 noted how bulky was the body to which that 

 brain belonged. We should be so impressed 

 because we should have previously noted that, 

 as a general rule, in back-boned amimals, the 

 larger the bulk of the body the less the relative 

 size of the brain. From our knowledge of the 



